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HOUSTON, Texas — Halff Associates Director of Planning and Landscape Architecture Tim May, PLA, LEED AP, was honored with the Distinguished Member Award by the Texas Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) last week. The award is presented to a member of the Texas Chapter for outstanding service to the ASLA and profession in Texas.“It is quite an honor to be recognized like that,” said May, who currently serves the Texas Chapter as a trustee and was president in 2014. “ASLA is all about giving back and giving to the profession, and when your peers recognize that you’ve done that, it’s quite a humbling feeling that I get. What I volunteered to do hasn’t gone for naught.”The Distinguished Member Award is the highest honor the Texas Chapter can bestow locally, and is intended to correspond to the Fellow honor nationally. Winners must be a current member of the Texas Chapter with a minimum of 10 years standing with ASLA, who has made outstanding contributions to the profession of landscape architecture and to ASLA in Texas. Winners have shown leadership to the profession in one or more of the following ways: through quantity or quality of executed related works; administrative work in a related public agency; in related school instruction; in related speaking and writing; and/or related political or public service.

Tim has nearly 35 years of experience focused on the management, design, production, and construction observation for planning and landscape architecture projects.

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